Museums of the Torture in Europe

As surpluses, guilty and witnesses of the pain of long ago, the instruments of torture utilized by the old European states are presented today. Luckily nowadays we see them behind a cord and a notice of touch not. In Europe of the east, the museums called Museums of the Torture are found in each city that deign to be important and boast to have an a little sadistic past.





Among them we can count to Tallin, Zakopane, Keszthely, San Petersburgo, Prague, among others many, without counting some more than Europe Western. These loaded instruments of devices, far from their past and their law to inflict pain, today for the present they cause amazement, surprise and curious looks of tourists and interested in the history. The Investigation -that it of Saint remains exceeding-, applied hard punishments to whom they dared to be rebeled before the orders of the ones that they exercised the power or also to those that with the heretic easy excuse morían in full intention of expressing their ideas freely and without any type of reproof.



The Museum of the Torture of the city of Prague, Czech Republic, is one of the most complete from across europe and counts on a total of 60 curious capable instruments to frighten at more than one and to cause pain with so alone the minimum mental image of what could be their application in the past. They emphasize the belts of chastity for him and for her, the saws and the iron maidens calls. The explanation of each one of the instruments is found detailed in perfect English and other languages for the sadomasochistic delight of the visitors that like to be interfered of the pain in the Middle Ages. Besides the curious apparatuses that rest in the museum, informations can be found like the hunt of Bruges in this city and the meetings to determine the tortures that would inflict them.



The pain does not occupy a great space in Prague, the Museum of the Torture is located in a small space between the Bridge Carlos and the Plaza of the Old City. Travel through in its totality will not take him more than 45 minutes.

In the Museum of the Medieval Torture of the city of Tallin in Estonia, they can be appreciated besides similar copies to those of Prague, some painful shoes of wood that upon being of small size, immobilized and left useless the feet due to its small size. It is also the sharp chair on the one that were obliged to be sat down the ones that were found guilty of heresy or witchcraft.